Elon’s Moves Still Reverberating

Notes:
*Link about my journalism awards from the Society of Professional Journalists Riverside (Calif.) Chapter.
https://www.vvdailypress.com/story/news/2007/05/06/local-journalists-honored/37066062007/

*What is a hate crime? Read up on the FBI hate crime statistics web site. Intimidation can be a hate crime. That is a litmus test for social media moderators… is this intimidation?
https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/civil-rights/hate-crimes

*Admiral Rachel Levine is assistant secretary of Health and Human Services.
https://www.hhs.gov/about/leadership/rachel-levine.html

*Alabama repealed inaccurate and stigmatizing language from an old sex ed law; and then passed another bill similar to the Florida "anti-grooming" law, which prohibits teachers from teaching about gender identity from pre-school to 3rd grade.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/05/07/us-state-alabama-removes-anti-lgbt-language-sex-ed-law#

*Origin of the word “woke.” It used to be a genuine civil rights term to mean “awake.” But it has quickly become pejorative and I think we can do better. See link (thanks to alert reader Lee Forman):
https://theconversation.com/where-woke-came-from-and-why-marketers-should-think-twice-before-jumping-on-the-social-activism-bandwagon-122713